My nine books over the last decade that stayed with me, non-fiction and fiction.
A selection of new and used books from a recent trip to Cork (I'm particularly enamoured with the Sorokin, which I have already almost finished) #booksky
Love these books so much, but bought the ebooks of the third and fourth. Currently reading the e-arc of book 5. Graveyard of Perfection by @aptshadow.bsky.social is amazing. I need to find the hardcovers of all the books to have the whole series on the shelf with these utterly stunning covers.
Thank you to everyone posting about Brian & Wendy Froud's new book, containing 72 new paintings with literary responses by 37 women writers of diverse backgrounds, landscapes & mythic traditions. Having worked on the project for the last two years, we've all been moved by the enthusiastic response.
It's publication day for A Scrap of Moss & Magick! Officially out in the world, with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social. It feels at once wildly thrilling & strangely distant. (Alt Text for extended thanks! Links in bio!) Good luck, little book, out in the world! Go well! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade
This page gets cited as the point where John Byrne decided to stop working with Chris Claremont — apocryphally, Byrne thought Claremont's dialogue undermined Colossus' strength. I find this to be a fascinating instance of one guy approaching fiction with calipers while another shows up with tequila
Ok, friends! Your #BannedBooksWeek selection of the day! Another one from my bookshop.org wishlist (want) In the wake of #RapeCulture #cornell 7 being at an all time high, let's talk about Black women with the audacity to have sexual and economic agency in an era when it was uncommon. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy by Lashawn Harris #BlackFedi #BlackLivesMatter #bookstodon
Princess Ata Glyndŵr is the main character of Raven & Bear. While she hasn't had a romantic relationship on page yet, she will. The first volume follows her from ages ten to fifteen so its all in the later half. [Art by @nushdeco.bsky.social] #QueerPrompts #Raven+Bear #queer #lgbtq+writers #LGBT
For no particular reason I today translated my 30-ish years old unstarted epic poem, The one-legged knights of Grôt, from Norwegian into English. The one-legged knights of Grôt In the valley of death, back to back the two. One with a sandal, the other a shoe. #writing
After an amazing Alice Oswald reading at the 92nd Street Y we were all exiting our seats and I tripped and fell into Anne Carson. She was the most beautifully alive person I’d ever seen—her eyes! She said, smiling, “drinking again?” Cherished memory
Unveiled opens with a woman whose ordinary life revolves around a hole in her memory. Cath Lab manager Tessa Brooks is a wife and mother whose apparent stability is shattered by increasingly vivid flashbacks of an accident she can’t quite remember. #bookreview #books #read #write #writingcommunity literaryharbinger.com/2026/10/…
Re-reading IT this summer it occurred to me he’s somewhat kinder to fat boys. Ben is so pure hearted he could lift Thor’s hammer. “Lard Ass” in the pie-eating story gets his vomitous revenge. But Sonya Kaspbrak and the bride from “The Wedding Gig” are portrayed as monstrous.
Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "The Penguin Charles Addams" (1962) by Charles Addams Age Range: 13 to adult Genre: Humor, Comics Thanks to the censorship-happy mods at Beige.party, I won't be posting there any more. This will be a relatively short recommendation, since this instance has stricter limits on posts. Charles Addams did a lot of cartoons for the New Yorker. The "Addams Family" shows and movies were based on his work. It's macabre and wickedly funny stuff. You can borrow this book (and many others by Charles Addams) from the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/penguincha… Happy reading! 🤓📖 Here's a complete spreadsheet of all the books I've recommended on Mastodon to date (along with links to each post): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #Books #Bookstodon #Humor #Comics #Cartoons #Horror #BookRecs #BookRecommendations #DailyBookRecs #QuasitBookRecs
HP books have pretty much escaped ubiquity in the collective consciousness of modern kids and the kid lit landscape has changed so, so much in the last 30 years that trying to play catch-up NOW by sending a few boxes out to scholastic book fairs will not make a dent in this issue.
It’s been a minute since I gave a shit about the subject of either Malcolm Gladwell or Michael Lewis’s recent books. Michael Pollan’s current book, otoh, is about consciousness and I am enjoying it. #Reading #Books #Knowledge
The size of manga is probably the least important part of why it's successfully but it is an important part of why they are convenient and convenience matters so there's that. Incredibly diverse genres is harder to reverse engineer but affordability and convenience are not
Announcing A Game of Poisons, Thorne & Hayes 1! It's a buddy cop police procedural and a P.I. Tracy Hayes spin-off. Murders and lots of drama. Out on December 6th! Some preorder links are up and there's an unedited sample chapter too. susannashore.com/gameofpoisons… #crimefiction #bookstodon
today's book i'm trying to get my uni to buy for me is "Notes of a Crocodile" by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie, after reading Chih-Chen Tsai's paper "Homosexuals Tragedy and Spiritual Love: The Animal Image, Gender Politics and Symbolic Affect in Notes of a Crocodile and Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin"
The theme for this year's Banned Books Week is "Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read." Lots of ways to learn more about book banning, including this free virtual autopsy of censorship panel from the SC Writers Association happening October 8 at 7pm ET. www.youtube.com/live/TbSuthl...
I finished reading East of Eden. I feel like Cathy was underdeveloped. I get the motivations of everyone else but she’s just a mystery? She’s just supposed to represent what sin and temptation, where is her humanity. Could someone write a book through her perspective!
Ok. So I have finished Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros. My sister gifted my Fourth Wing a couple of years ago and I once again fell in love with fantasy. Threshing Day is a novella as part of the larger series and it is excellent. And! I don't normally like college-esque-based books!
It’s Banned Books Week. “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.” Ralph Ellison “Invisible Man”
This thread is a great insight into why too many of the TERF Wizard books readers never went on to read other books. I got to them late, having read Pratchett and McCaffrey (and many more) before her, so they never really sunk their hooks into my soul.
book awards are reminders of how much I have yet to read npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-59914…
#Sniptober The interactions between these two are much of the reason King of Ill-Omens is one of my favorite books in this series.
I try not to bleat too much about my disability, but I was born with a crippling case of congenital laziness. That's why when I saw the titles of the five new Sara Woods reissues from Dean Street Press show up for pre-order at Kobo, I smiled at these two: First, my life's motto. Then, my epitaph - THEY GET ME 😱😁 #Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon (These are books 11-15 of the Woods series reissued by DSP, the whole series is very good for fans of quality #Mystery writing)
Four years ago, I used to be a librarian. When they gave us complementary books at book fairs, they were newer books… Not 20 year old books, unless it was a special reissue. Like new art, new cover, an unabridged version or something. Maybe things have changes since then… But I kinda doubt it.
I found an old, I mean *old* notebook in which 10yo me started writing a story. It's SF with hovercrafts and spaceships and lasers and basically all the cool tech from Star Wars, but in a different order. And not one character. Except maybe the speeder. That speeder saw some shit, man.
Having read all three Midnight comics, Fantastic Four is probably my favorite of the batch. Spider-Man was great, but Fantastic Four had me thinking deeply after reading it. The X-Men was solid, too, and felt the most like a blockbuster horror film out of all of them.
Urban Rituals, Street Food, and No Streets at All: Annalee Newitz’s 'Four Lost Cities'. reactormag.com/urban-rituals-s…
I love books and libraries! I'm a big reader of fiction, though I'm increasingly a fan of littler books and novellas particularly now I'm an MSP 📚 Today, I'm joining thousands across Scotland enjoying a #WeeRead with the Scottish Library & Information Council. Reading for pleasure brings massive benefits to people, including reducing stress and supporting learning. Sign the pledge to have a Wee Read here: www.weeread.scot #WeeRead26 #ChooseReading #ChooseLibraries
My latest for @theguardian.com, a longer review of Patricia Lockwood's return to poetry after a long time; tl;dr – it's good. But do read the piece! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
I just enjoyed reading this on the Python 3.15 blog: "At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved. He heaved a deep sigh and said, “I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we cannot string his bow. This will disgrace us in the eyes of those who are yet unborn.”
Finished Parable of the Sower. It was one of the best books I read this year. When Butler wants the prose to throw a punch, it says how hard. The themes felt in conversation with Grapes of Wrath in a really evocative way, adding a black perspective to them Go read it already #booksky
The phrase "silent and inexplicable" has been in my head a lot lately. Against an indifferent background universe, or worse, a universe where the powers that be seem deranged and often hostile with no explanation forthcoming, the failure of human societies to shield people from the unfortunate and ineffable stands out. What is society for otherwise?
I'm proud of my three collections of ghost stories and weird fiction, not least because together they've apparently created a sense of what Newmanesque might mean. Get them here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Ray-N...
Science Vs. Cancer by Yu. Gritsman The book enters into the series of contributions devoted to the problems of cancer. In language accessible even to those who are not professionally concerned with oncological studies, and with the help of numerous examples from the history of medicine, Professor Yu. Gritsman acquaints the readers with some of the major and most recent achievements in this domain of science. He also devotes significant space to the criticism of the… mirtitles.org/2026/10/08/scien…
Slightly longer #WIPSnips today, and I had to substitute. I describe Rindle as “lizard-like” a bunch of times, but he apparently self-describes as a reptile instead, which I discovered when I couldn’t find this passage in my first search!
Banned book of the day: Pandemonium (2012) — Lauren Oliver banned-books.org/book-of-the-d… #BannedBooks #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Books #IntellectualFreedom
Son just described one of my favourite Baudelaire poems as 'dumb'. They really shouldn't teach good poetry and literature at school, it just primes kids to hate it. Anyway, Albatross is a banger.
Readers! This is a wonderful collection and I urge you to buy it and savor each story.
My romantic thriller is now available! I wrote FALSE FLAG to inform casual fans of disinformation "entertainment" about the dangers of pseudoarchaeology. An archaeologist risks everything to stop a disinformation podcaster from using his influence to incite violence. Buy now: geni.us/FalseFlag
The Incident at Galley House recently passed 100k copies sold! Thanks so much all the detectives out there who spread the word 🕵️♀️
Critic @davidcollard.bsky.social kicks off a series of conversations with authors and publishers on the state of criticism, small presses and the reception of a certain novel. First up is @cdrose.bsky.social, author of We Live Here Now, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. youtu.be/EUbitLCUnqE?...
Stronsay Lifeboat Station 1952 – 1972, Part 6: The Longhope Lifeboat Disaster By Ian Cooper, from his excellent series Records of a Bygone Age, first published in The Stronsay Limpet…... theorkneynews.scot/2026/10/08/…
Meet Alabi, who's just left home and is about to discover the resistance. THE CITY OF FACTORIES, @naomieselojor.bsky.social's debut steampunk novella sent in an alternative Nigeria, is out in SIX DAYS. Direct pre-orders come with a cover art card: ⚙ links.ruadanbooks.com/TCOF #BookSky #TBR
How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland. What lies beyond the yellow door? More than you might think, and much more than the book’s young characters expect as they explore the neglected and heavily overgrown ruined stable block at Dunmore Park. Find out more: arachnid.scot/book-h46c/index.… #Books #Bookstodon
I'm rereading a horrible series of caveman romance novels that was published between 1980-2011 and I read some Amazon reviews that called it feminist slop Which is funny bc in the book universe numbers were invented so cave women would know when their periods are coming
But it wasn’t all blood. He gave money to the poor. Built homes. Played the hero. Some called him "Robin Hood." Others called him a monster. #books #bookreviews #DrugLordBiography #ColombianHistoryBooks thisgrandpablogs.com/pablo-esc…
Works by Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Ryan North among books banned in U.S. schools A record high for book bans in American schools in 2026, according to PEN America www.cbc.ca/books/works-...
